How do I get back old data after reinstalling windows?

[EricB]

I have a costumers computer that she had did a system recovery (compaq and hp recovery). basically she reinstalled windows.

she have old documents that she needs, that had got deleted. I've never done this before. I have plenty of data recovery programs. I using ontrack's format recovvery right now, but I think that it is recovering the new windows files after the install.

what should I use?

 

[Osiris]

ERD is good but I wont guarantee anything. Most of the time when I recover deleted files, they wont open properly, so its corrupted.

 

[Tox1cThreat]

you can try some forensics utilities, or somethign like Free Undelete..

Depending on how windows installed (well where it installed) you can get some of her data back. Just get a program that will read the actual data on the hard drive, not access it through the TOC.

 

[EricB]

I'm having a little success. what will happen if I recover in raw mode?

 

[EricB]

you can try some forensics utilities, or somethign like Free Undelete..

Depending on how windows installed (well where it installed) you can get some of her data back. Just get a program that will read the actual data on the hard drive, not access it through the TOC.

it won't install on the computer